I’m a concert pianist and music professor. I love performing and teaching: I feel incredibly lucky that I get to do both, and that I learn so much about each from the other.

I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While in high school I studied with Evelyne Brancart at the University of New Mexico. For college I went to Oberlin, where I studied with Joseph Schwartz in the conservatory and majored in English in the college. For grad school I went to Eastman, where I did the MM and DMA with Rebecca Penneys. I also got an MA in pedagogy of music theory so I could take all the fun theory classes, including Schenker and counterpoint and composition. After Eastman I freelanced in New York City, teaching privately, as an adjunct, and accompanying in the vocal program at the Juilliard School, and then I came to the Sunderman Conservatoryat Gettysburg College, where I’ve been the piano professor since 2004. I’ve also taught a few other places, including the Hochstein Music School, Fort Lewis College, and Paraguay on a Fulbright in the summer of 2008. Along the way I've also explored training in theatre, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, the Alexander Technique, and mindfulness meditation.

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As a musician, I’m omnivorous; there’s such a vast, rich literature for piano, and it’s inspiring and humbling that I’ll never be able to play all of it. Along with the old masters, I love working with composers and playing new music, including—just recently—improvising my own. I enjoy playing both solo and chamber music. In the past few years I’ve gotten interested in historical instruments, from improvising accompaniments on the harpsichord to exploring pedaling and articulation on pianos from different periods. I also have a couple of musical projects on the side: I'm an enthusiastic choir alto, and I spent a few years in the indie folky rock band Gettysburg Pirate Orchestra, on vocals, accordion, and occasionally bass. Lately I've been learning the ukulele.